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... Earlier reporting already pointed to outdated targeting data and raised questions about whether artificial intelligence had a role in the mix-up. And now, a Bloomberg investigation published Friday fills in more of the story, citing officials involved in an unreleased internal Pentagon review. Those officials said some Pentagon personnel knew within hours that the United States had hit the school, and they described a cascade of preventable failures that included an overreliance on an AI tool built by Palantir.

Too Much Trust in AI

According to the officials who spoke to Bloomberg, some personnel inside U.S. Central Command leaned too hard on the artificial intelligence inside the Maven Smart System, an AI-powered data integration and targeting platform developed by Palantir to accelerate intelligence analysis and decision-making.

The Defense Department has reportedly made the software tool a cornerstone of military operations over the past year.
Several former senior officers now work for Palantir, including some with high-level clearances at Centcom's Tampa headquarters. ...

@#55 ... The only other person to blame it on would be bibi, who bragged that he tried to get every president to attack iran, but finally found one willing to do it.

Would you rather blame trump for doing it, or trump being stupid enough to do bibi's bidding? ...

Good question.

Meanwhile ...

@#25 ... Belarus says no potash left ...

From the article in #25...

... At the same time, Trump posted on his social media site Truth Social that the U.S. purchase of potash from Belarus would be "very good news for our Farmers and Ranchers."

"The United States is working on a massive Deal with respect to the purchase of Potash from Belarus. The pricing would be for substantially less than we are currently paying to Canada," he posted. ...

... The goal would be to have the countries reduce their reliance on the Strait of Hormuz for transporting oil and gas, the Journal reported. ...

But... but... but... wasn't the Strait of Hormuz wide open to all traffic before Pres Trump's war of choice against Iran?

Now it is going to cost US taxpayers yet another $5B to try to undo the ramifications of his war.

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... Among the tools is an AI-powered watch list. An officer can cordon off an area of a city and make the cameras inside it run a continuous, automated search for anyone fitting a written description. ...

Experts who study automated screening and police technology say Flock has given its AI a job no technology does reliably. Flock's system decides, out of sight of the department using it, which descriptions of a person an officer may search for -- and no screen operating at that scale is accurate, the experts say.

Further, nobody outside the company can measure how often it is wrong, or in which direction.

This puts users in a bind: The company itself warns officers that results may be inaccurate or incomplete and should not be relied on alone but puts the "risk of any inaccuracies" on the officer running the search. ...

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... Four men testifying Friday to Immigration and Customs Enforcement's arrest and detention practices in Oregon said they were asked few, if any, questions before they were taken to detention facilities hours away from their homes.

Speaking through Spanish interpreters, the men -- all in their 20s and 30s who work in blue-collar and service-connected jobs -- said they still fear arrest by ICE and potential deportation, despite the fact that they are following immigration laws.

Their testimony bolstered arguments from a class of Oregon immigrants who want U.S. District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai to ensure the government is complying with his February injunction preventing ICE agents from arresting Oregon residents without a warrant and without determining whether they posed a flight risk.

The order provided them with new rules and parameters for how to perform an arrest that comported with the law.

A 34-year-old man from Venezuela, known only as JCCV, living in The Dalles, Oregon, with his family, said that he had a pending immigration application when he was inexplicably detained and taken to a Portland facility for multiple days.

He said agents mistook him for his brother, who is also living in the U.S., but didn't bother to check his identification. ...

@#4,5

thx.

OK, changing direction a bit toward country-rock. Poco, the remnants of Buffalo Springfield ...

OK, one more from our friends in Australia...

Another from our friends down-under ...

@#10 ... Why what? ...

In #5, you stated... ...I remember when CEO pay was around 40 times worker pay in the '80s. Today it's about 325 times. ...

So, I asked why that change in ratio, from 40 to 325.

From our great friends in Australia, a change of direction for me ...

@#3 ... he wants what he wants. ...

Looks that way.

Even in his own words ...

"When someone is President of the United States, the authority is total, and that is the way it has to be. It's total. It's total."
      -- Pres Trump, Apr. 13, 2020

"I have the right to do anything I want"
      -- Pres Trump, Aug. 26, 2025

@#10 ... And Ukraine vs Russia . ...

It is not Ukraine vs Russia.

That is Pres Putin's unprovoked invasion of a sovereign Ukraine, and Ukraine defending itself.

That aspect aside, Russia accounted for less than 15% of global diesel supplies.

So, maybe, instead of worrying about such a small percentage of the diesel fuel supply, a better approach might be to tell Pres Putin to stop his unprovoked invasion of a sovereign Ukraine, and stop with the deflections?

Jus' askin'

@#5 ... I remember when CEO pay was around 40 times worker pay in the '80s. Today it's about 325 times. ...

Yup, but the real question seems to be ...

Why?

@#9 ... Melania probably feels the same way ~ LOL ...

Well, there's this nonsense stuff ...

@#11 ... More Whataboutism ...

Yeah, that current alias only looks more and more desperately lame with every comment it posts.

But, that's just my opinion.

Talking about musical styles ...

Teddy Wilson is what I call a "precise" piano-player.

@#1 ... "I would just ask the president to be aware that people are listening to him " ...

Did Sen Cassidy or did not Sen Cassidy vote to confirm Sec Kennedy?

It is a simple, yes or no question.

Once he answers that question, we can move forward from the health quagmire where we are.

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... "I would just ask the president to be aware that people are listening to him " if he discourages immunization, there'll be fewer people immunized, and if we're speaking of measles, there'll be more people sick in the hospital or even die," Cassidy said on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan." ...